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Krisan L. Evenson

Krisan L. Evenson

Graduate Adjunct Faculty, Political Science

Office phone number: (603) 535-2790
e-mail: klevenson@plymouth.edu

Administrative contact: Kathy Melanson
Administrative contact phone number: (603) 535-2335

Profile

Krisan Evenson shares her time among several public and private sector projects. As a political psychologist, she has worked as a consultant and academic, more recently for the US Department of Defense, and Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. These roles followed several years at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. There, Dr. Evenson served as Assistant Director of European Programs for the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, and as the Global Programs Coordinator for Maxwell’s International Relations Program.


Dr. Evenson holds her PhD in political science, and advanced degrees in international policy and French. Before returning to the East Coast to teach French, political science and international relations, she taught French during Summer Intensive Language Programs at the Monterey Institute, and has done some interpretation in the US and France. As Program Director at the Pacific Islands Institute in Hawaii, she taught and wrote textbooks for the Institute on New Zealand, the Cook Islands and French Polynesia, and the Hawaiian Islands. She then worked in California at the International Missile Proliferation and Emerging Nuclear Suppliers Projects of the Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.


In general, Dr. Evenson works in her fields of political psychology and comparative politics to study the relationship among political socialization, political culture and citizenship, concentrating on multilingual societies such as Canada. She has published and presented her research at several US and international conferences. Recently, she was invited to speak at the 20th anniversary of the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts, in Syracuse NY, and presented her work entitled, "Human Security and Peacekeeping in Criminalized Environments: The Role of War-Affected Children." This work is part of a broader research program being developed through the spring and summer of 2008.


When she is not mentoring new professionals in the changing defense, intelligence and international relations fields, Dr. Evenson is engaged in research, writing, and public speaking on issues related to: peacekeeping missions, human security, political will, visual semiotics and nationbuilding, children and armed conflict, and the rise of child soldiers.

Degrees and Education

  • MA, PhD, Syracuse University
  • MA, Monterey Institute International
  • BA, Colby College

Publications

  • "Destination Ithaca: Sequenced Writing in Semester-Long Research Projects," in "Faculty Voices" at The Out of WAC Newsletter (Vol. 15, No.2, 2007-08)
  • "La 'societe distincte': Political Socialization and the Renewal of Quebec," The Dalhousie Review, 78:1, September 1999
  • "When the Stakes are High: The Changing Nature of Political Education in Quebec and Canada," Quebec Studies, Fall 1997
  • "Political Socialization and Citizenship: Identity and Allegiance in Canada," Proceedings of the 1995 Maxwell Colloquium, (Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, Spring 1996)
  • The Hawaiian Islands Map and Factbook, (Pacific Islands Institute, August 1991, Kailua, HI)
  • Cook Islands and French Polynesia Map and Factbook, (Pacific Islands Institute, June 1991, Kailua, HI)
  • New Zealand Map and Factbook, (Pacific Islands Institute, April 1991, Kailua, HI)

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